Emails of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published by the State Department expose that the Qatari Royal family made efforts to befriend the American politician through former British PM Tony Blair’s spouse, Cherie Blair.

Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned, a wife of the former emir
of Qatar and mother of the ruling emir, Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad
Al-Thani, established contact with Clinton via Cherie
Blair.

The Blair and Clinton families have been political and personal
friends since the 1990s.

“Sheika Moser (Sheikha Mozah) has approached me privately
saying they are keen to get their relationship with the USA onto
a more positive footing and she was hoping for a ‘women to women’
one to one private meeting with you,” Cherie Blair wrote to
Clinton in May 2009. “I am sure the conversation would not be
confined to these issues but would be about the U.S./Qatar
relationship generally,” Blair wrote, mentioning joint
philanthropic interests among issues Clinton and Mozah could talk
about.

Blair did her best to persuade Hillary Clinton to get acquainted
with “someone who has real influence in Qatar,” the
newly-released documents show.

“I could make time to meet in DC during the weeks of June 8th
and 15th. Would that work?” Clinton gave in on May 26,
promising to rearrange her schedule to “fit her time.”

Yet Sheikha Mozah was unable to meet with Clinton on suggested
dates in June 2009 “due to prior commitments” and
proposed to meet “immediately after Ramadan/Eid week of
September 27, 2009.”

Altogether, on Tuesday the State Department released over 1,900
of Clinton’s emails (3,000 pages). Within this bulk of
information, there are 19 emails that have to do with Clinton/
Mozah getting acquainted with each other.

The royal Al-Thanis
family of Qatar is known for its fabulous wealth gathered on the
back of the petroleum and liquefied natural gas
trade.Over the
last decades, Qatar rulers spent billions on increasing its
influence in Western capitals. Particularly heavily Al-Thanis
invested in London,the
Guardianclaims.

The scale of the Qatar royal family’s investment in the British
capital remains largely unknown. Al-Thanis own Harrods, the Olympic village and Shard
completely, along with certain property in Hyde Park. A quarter
of Sainsbury’s, large share of Barclays and 8 percent of the
London Stock Exchange all belong to them, as well as the US
embassy building in Grosvenor Square.

Earlier this year it emerged that the Clinton Foundation
allegedly received multiple foreign donations during Hillary
Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.

A newly-released book accused the Clinton Foundation, run by
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, her husband Bill Clinton,
and their daughter Chelsea, of accepting quid pro quo donations
from foreign sources while Hillary was secretary of state.

It was revealed that governments that had received frequent
criticism from the State Department for repressive policies -
countries like Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab
Emirates, Oman and Qatar - had donated to the Clinton Foundation and
gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made
weapons.

In late May, the FIFA corruption scandal also cast its shadow
over the Clintons, as it emerged that the Clinton Foundation
received at least $50,000 and as much as $100,000 from the
football governing body.

“I don't think there's anything sinister in trying to get
wealthy people in countries that are seriously involved in
development to spend their money wisely in a way that helps poor
people and lifts them up,” Hillary Clinton told NBC News in
May.

The Guardian reports that Blair family has done some favors for
Qatar’s rulers, too.

Although Tony Blair stepped down from his post as PM in 2007, his
influence remains in place. In 2012 he brokered a $50-billion commodities deal
between Glencore and Xstrata, which brought him $1 million.

Later the same year the former Labor leader assisted the Qataris
in getting a share in a £1-billion-valued group owning such
prestigious hotel as Berkeley, Claridge’s and Connaught, the
Guardian claims.

The Blairs’ charitable Faith Foundation, aimed at combating
religious extremism, does not hesitate to accept donations from
anyone, be it Rupert Murdoch or Ukrainian oligarchs.

In this regard, the Faith Foundation mirrors the Clinton
Foundation, set up by the former US President Bill Clinton after
leaving his post in 2001.

From 2009 up to 2013, the year the Ukrainian crisis erupted, the
Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor
Pinchuk Foundation, which is headquartered in the Ukrainian
capital of Kiev, a new report claims.

The Clinton Foundation’s donor list includes some 200,000 names,
among them foreign financial institutions and Wall Street-based
financial organizations, international energy conglomerates and
governments, the government of Qatar included, which allegedly has given
between $1 million and $5 million in donations to the Clintons.